From the Aussiecon 4 press release:
The Hugo Awards are the premier award in the science fiction genre, honoring science fiction literature and media as well as the genre’s fans. The first Hugos were awarded at the 1953 World Science Fiction Convention in Philadelphia (Philcon II), and have honored science fiction and fantasy notables such as Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman and many others.
BEST NOVEL
[Tie for first place]
The City & The City by China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
BEST NOVELLA
“Palimpsest” by Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace; Orbit)
BEST NOVELETTE
“The Island” by Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos)
BEST SHORT STORY
“Bridesicle” by Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 1/09)
BEST RELATED WORK
This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is “I”)
by Jack Vance (Subterranean)
BEST GRAPHIC STORY
Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm
Written by Kaja and Phil Foglio; Art by Phil Foglio; Colours by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – LONG FORM
Moon Screenplay by Nathan Parker; Story by Duncan Jones;
Directed by Duncan Jones (Liberty Films)
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – SHORT FORM
Doctor Who: “The Waters of Mars” Written by Russell T Davies
& Phil Ford; Directed by Graeme Harper (BBC Wales)
BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM
Ellen Datlow
BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
Shaun Tan
BEST SEMIPROZINE
Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, & Cheryl Morgan
BEST FAN WRITER
Frederik Pohl
BEST FANZINE
StarShipSofa edited by Tony C. Smith
BEST FAN ARTIST
Brad W. Foster
THE JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER
Seanan McGuire
A photo of the physical award and base, which was designed by Australian artist Nick Stathopoulos, is here at TheHugoAwards.org.
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For the first time since 1975, we’ve had four different winners of the Best Hugo for Fanzine in four sequential years.
From 1972-1975, we had Harry Warner, Jr., Terry Carr, Susan Wood Glicksohn, and Richard Geis.
From 2007-2010, we had Dave Langford, John Scalzi, Cheryl Morgan, and Fred Pohl.
The longest sequential run without repeats was from 1967-1971 (Alexei Panshin, Ted White, Warner, Wilson Tucker, Geis) and 1970 to 1974 (Tucker, Geis, Warner, Carr, Wood Glicksohn).
@Steven: You probably meant “Best Fanwriter”, didn’t you?
Half these results seem quite reasonable.
As for the other half, to quote Popeye, “I am disgustipated.”
I did. Just had fanzines on my mind this morning for some reason. 🙂
Taral: “disgustipated”? Are you sure you’re not quoting our last U.S. president? I’d hate to think I were agreeing with him for the first time…
Dave Locke: “Disgustipated” is in fact from Fleischer Brothers animated Popeye cartoons, not George W. Bush. I’ve been known to use the expression myself.
I’ve known it since childhood, watching Popeye hosted by Cookie (the late Jim Bolen) and the Captain (whose name I never have been able to remember) every weekday afternoon and some Saturdays and some Sundays on what was then KMOX-TV (now KMOV-TV) in St. Louis.
One might footnote that there have been cases of nominees withdrawing; I don’t have a list off the top of my head, and don’t feel like Googling, but I recall Harlan Ellison removing his name after being nominated for Best Fan Writer in one of the late Sixties years.